We recently connected with Manny Eastwood and have shared our conversation below.

Manny, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today What do you think it takes to be successful?

I believe that the most important quality for achieving success is persistence. Success requires a lot of hard work, and it can be easy to become discouraged or give up when faced with setbacks or obstacles. However, those who persist through these challenges are often the ones who ultimately achieve their goals. Persistence allows you to stay committed to your vision, learn from your mistakes, and continue to make progress even when things are difficult. Of course, there are other qualities that contribute to success as well, such as creativity, adaptability, and resilience, but I believe that persistence is the foundation upon which all other qualities are built. And always remember most of all to just breathe and know you have already created and manifested your success now it’s time to walk it.

Manny, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Being sober has really gave me a new mission in life. I spent nearly 20 something years in my alcohol addiction being greedy, egotistical, arrogant and selfish I spent my life living for the next drink making foolish decisions one right after the other Getting deeper and sinking further away from reality. And just when things couldn’t get worse they did. In December 2019 I was diagnosed with the AIDS virus (hiv stage 4). I gotten deeper into my depression, self pity and feeling hopeless so the only thing I knew how to handle that pain was to do the only thing the doctors said was killing me and that was to drink. Then covid happened and because I was recently diagnosed with AIDS and practically had no immune system I had to be quarantined until further notice. During this time I sank so deep into my alcoholism that it actually woke me up to the fact that in was an alcoholic and needed to get help so I decided to get sober with the help of Alcoholics Anonymous. So there I was in quarantine trying to quit alcohol while living with HIV/AIDS and I was going completely crazy! A friend of mine told me about breathwork and how much it helped her get through so much stuff Including getting sober. So I tried it, I tried it because I was desperate. I went to my first zoom breathwork session and fell in love! It made me feel brand new, alive and hopeful again. I felt all my insecurities, sadness, and stressors melt away in my breathing. I continued to do this daily sometimes 6 times a day. The more I breathed the more creative I got as an artist, the more relaxed about life I became and the more passionate I became in this wondrous practice of breathwork. Breathwork literally saved my life. I became the man I always wanted to be. That’s when i decided I NEED TO HELP OTHERS and be of maximum service to help guide people heal themselves through breathing. So I delved straight into the books I read everything I could, watching videos, taking classes, getting certified, asking questions upon questions and then when I felt confident I decided to start my own business in breathwork and hold breathing sessions for others. I’ve always been a natural healer and strongly believe in healing crystals so that’s when I got creative with it and decided to integrate energy healing into my sessions. The main mission of my business BreathworkAF is to help others that are struggling as I have, that feel lost, unmotivated, and angry at the world. I know how it feels to be where they are and I also know how it feels to climb out of it. BreathworkAF offers intention setting and energy manifesting breathwork sessions with energy healing and escaping the mind through music verbal guiding and crystal healing. And can be taken with me as a one on one private session or with another person or in a group setting via zoom and or in person. My clients always know they are taken care of, safe and heard. Most of all they feel alive, woke, and most importantly redetermined with new energy to incorporate back into their manifesting practice and or their goals. I help people rediscover their main mission on this earth using my star seed intuitions and energy.
Breathing is the first and the last thing we do on this earth school. And I’m just here to help others get through life one breath at a time.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I’ve learned to no longer become complacent. I used to have this entitlement about myself that the universe will provide and also do all the work for me. And I could just sit back and be lazy, drink, and watch tv all day expecting the universe to give me gifts with no effort on my end. I used to think that all I had to do in order to manifest what I wanted was to think it and believe it and have faith it’ll come. On one end that’s true but there is action and a-lot more action “Faith without works is dead” (AA big book Pg. 88) the moment I started implementing that energy that work motivated hungry hot energy that’s when things started happening for me. Doors opened, clients came, art was sold. I am responsible for the the energy i create and surround myself in. I’m also responsible for the energy I allow to come around me. So now, I surround myself with positive uplifting motivated hard working individuals because that’s the energy I want to continue to be tapped into.

Can you tell us about what’s worked well for you in terms of growing your clientele?

There are a few strategies I use to grow my clientele. One of the most crucial for me is focusing on social media where your ideal customers are most active, and using content marketing to establish yourself to effectively represent your business. POST POST POST. Another effective strategy is to offer incentives such as discounts, referral programs, or loyalty programs to bring in new customers. Collaborating with other businesses by reaching out to them, can also help to broaden and attract new clients by tapping into another business’ clientele.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: BreathworkAF & MannyEastwood
• Other: TikTok: @breathworkaf